The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-25
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

How an Albany Man ConSOled HIS
Wife for not Going to the Piedmont
Exposition-A Creditors Bill Filed
Against a Prominent Firm of At
lanta.
GEORGIA
The st. Louis and Chicago base ball clubs
will play at Augusta Nov. 3.
r. w. Clements, of Irwin, owns 10000
acres of land in Irwin county, for which he
asks $4,000
Near Aapaha about eighteen months ago
a COW died, was cut open and the calf
taken. The calf is the property of v. j.
Exum, and bids fair to make good mixer.
Last Saturday and Sunday were memoir
able days at Oak Grove church i'll Brooks
county. There were over 1000 people in
attendance and twenty-five elders of the
Primitive Baptist church
Just before day last Tuesday morning the
storehouse of Cribb e. Phillips and the
dwelling of S. E. Phillips at Glenmore, in
Ware county, were destroyed by fire 1t is
supposed to be the work of an incendiary.
Loss about 81, 900, only partly insured.
Two young men of WaycroSs visited n
country church, rather primitive in its man
ners and customs, and when the boys took
seats with thei. girls the minister requested
them to promenade to their places and
the boys much against their wishes, had to
find seats on the male side of the house.
Prof w. K Pilsbury, of the Recorder, is
probably the only man in Americas who
saw James K. Polk, once President of the
United States. Prof. Pilsbury saw him on
one occasion, when ex-President Polk visited
Charleston, $. c., i'll the spring of l649, and
where Prof. Pilsbury was introduced to him
as cadet of the South Carolina Academy,
with other cadets.
f. f. Putney's store, at Hardaway, was
broken into by thieves, on Friday night.
The burglars were evidently after money,
for they tried to get into the safe; but in
this they failed. They stole some goods, in
Guiding cheap watch, but the total value
of what they carried off was inconsiderable,
showing that the burglars were after
money rather than goods.
Rev. W. j. Stallings boarded the train
at VaIdosta last Monday to go to Atlanta
to have a surgical operation performed on
his arm. He was shot in one arm during
the late war and the bullet has never been
extracted. 1t is said that the bullet is in
the marrow and is working up. His arm
is paralyzed, and it is thought nothing short
Of amputation will effect cure.
Abbeville Times: In writing up our trip
TO Irwin we forgot to state that we passed
through what's called the Battle Ground"
rendered historical as the place where eX-
President Davis was captured. A tree was
pointed out that was cut nearly half down
after balls The place where a horse was
killed was also pointed out, and where the
grass grew before, the ground has been bare
ever since.
A gentleman of Albany. who left his re-
luctant wife at home while he visited the
Piedmont Exposition, and brought her
dress to make her stay contented, was
questioned, as usual, upon his return as to
the costume Mrs. Cleveland wore He
artleSsly replied, ''she wore a dress lust like
your new frock." All disappointment at
not being able to attend the exposition was
forgotten, and the appreciation of the new
dress was enhanced many fold.
AT Atlanta Saturday, in the case of I. C.
Bandmand q Co., who, on Oct II, made an
assignment, Walter r. Brown, representing
f. B. Petite g. Co. of New York, filed bill
before Judge Marshall j. Clark, asking that
defendants show cause why permanent re-
ceiver should not be appointed: and, also,
why Bsndrnand q Co. should not return
certain goods purchased from Petite 81 Co.,
the plaintiff alleging that these had been
obtained by fraud Saturday next is fixed
as the day for hearing.
Fort Valley Enterprise: There is we'll
known colored man in our town who claims
that he was severely whipped once in his
boyhood, by ex-President Davis, way down
from Mississippi, and we have no right to
disbelieve him. He says he is going to see
Marse President jeff Davis next week, and
ask him If he remembers whipping him 'be-
fore de wah." This negro is as true a Dem
ocrat, and has always been, as any of his
race. He votes an open ticket and says
the white man is the best friend he ever
had.
The large barn of Capt. John D. Simms,
AL
The fire was discovered when but very
small fame near the rack where the stock
fed, but it spread so rapidly that all effort
to put it out was unavailing. There were
in the barn several thousand pounds of hay,
100 or 125 bushels of corn, 100 or $50 bushels
Of oats and three bales of cotton ready for
market. The loss is estimated at $500 Or
$1,000, supposed to be the work of an in
cendiary. No live stock was burned,
and other buildings near by were saved with
great difficulty.
For thirty-seven years there has been a
box in the Americas post office called Will
iams' box. 1t was a neighborhood box,
and all contributed toward paying rent,
and if the amount paid was put together it
would make quite nice little sum 1t was
called so for A. j. Williams, of the new
Twenty district, whosssays he has re-
ceived as many as fifty letters day during
the war for his neighborhood. Uncle Jack
is now growing old, and he says that the
young men now growing up should be
recognized in their labors for the people,
and Williams box has ceased to be- and a
regular daily mail now takes its place. A
post Office has been established and named
Rooney.
The law requires that all resolutions and
bills appropriating money should be read
three times on three different DAYS in each
house of the General Assembly before pass
ing 1t is thought that the recent Legis-
lature overlooked this fact once or twice
in connection with several resolutions
authorizing the payment of money to COM
mittees and members for expenses reading
the same only once or at best twice. Under
the law these resolutions are worthless, and
cannot be used as authority to Justify the
payment of money. OF course, the matter
was an oversight, but it cannot be corrected
now until the next General Assembly meets.
The amounts involved are small and insig-
nificant and no special trouble will result
from the oversight.
The new insurance bill passed by the Gen
eral Assembly and now on the Governors
table for approval, is not a radically new
measure as some people suppose. In sub
stance it is nothing more or less than cod
ification Of existing laws on the subject of
insurance, arranging the same so that
trouble and difficulty will be avoided. But
little additional powers are conferred upon